Introductory slides to a bilateral webinar between Canadian and UK cities around a theme of using open data as an investment attraction tool.

1. Lou Milrad B.A., LL.B.
Business & Municipal IT Law
IPC "Access by Design" Ambassador
MilradLaw

2. A brief introduction into the potential of Open Data as an
investment attraction tool
• Municipalities are bastions of a wealth of land related (cadastral) data in both digital
and hardcopy format
• Examples include
• Legal Descriptions
• Assessment & property/business tax information
• Official plans, zoning & planning and building information,
• Subdivision and other land related plans (including building plans), plans of
survey, etc.

3. A brief introduction (continued)
• All capable of being digitized, cleansed and available as open data as a set
of economic development tools (subject to certain restrictions)
• Capable of being pooled and shared with colleague municipalities, senior
levels of government, and LIO as well as the private sector
• Goal is to provide a pooled resource to enable site selectors, and potential
businesses to create and compare digital models of potential local
investment and FTI opportunities
• Would require a public-private approach to design, build, maintain and
enhance

4. • Economic Development and community engagement
• Promotes local engagement and innovation
• e.g. Apps creation around municipal services
• Transportation scheduling and routes
• Tourism attractions
• Job creation
• Site selectors & potential foreign direct investors